Tips for surviving a late-night Houston Texans game

Plenty of Houston Texans fans will be staying up late tonight to watch our team play the San Diego Chargers on the West Coast, with kickoff set at around 9:15 p.m. central time. So many of us have been spoiled with all the noon and late afternoon kickoffs that we will need some help getting through this evening and tomorrow morning. Texans fans usually have at least 12 hours to sleep off whatever we ingested during games on Sunday afternoons.

Here are 10 tips to get through the next 24 hours:

Tonight is a good night to finally try Buffalo Wild Wings’ new caffeine-infused, boneless Chicken Uppers, which come with a coffee-ground dipping sauce.

If you are worried about being late for work, why not just change into your work clothes at halftime. It could save you precious minutes on Tuesday morning.

Don’t be that guy or gal that calls in sick the day after the big game. Save that for the aftermath of a disastrous playoff loss or after the Super Bowl in February.

If you are planning to call in sick, at least come up with a good excuse. You are too old to have three dead grandmothers, and car trouble doesn’t always cut it, what with Houston’s amazing mass transit system.

Children who want to stay up late and root for JJ Watt and the gang will be hit the hardest by this late game, since their tiny bodies require hours and hours of sleep to not be unholy terrors. Put them to bed early before the game even starts and say it was rained out. They’ve probably never been to San Diego so they will be none the wiser.

If you do intend to keep your kids up until the end of the game, remember to cover up those droopy eyelids with some concealer and maybe pack a 5-hour Energy shot in their lunchbox. The teachers will love it and you will be getting them on the road to a debilitating addiction to stimulants that will come in handy during college.

Why not pull an all-nighter like you did when you were still cool? Remember those days when you could stay up until sunrise watching all the Lord Of The Rings movies? Recapture that magic tonight. This isn’t recommended if you are a cop or a firefighter, though.

Staying up all night also means that you can call in to all the big overnight AM sports radio shows and finally have an outlet for all of your awful opinions.

Don’t watch the game live. Instead, follow along with the action on Twitter where the inane and ill-informed opinions of friends and strangers alike will lull you into a fitful, angry sleep.

Turn the game off and go to bed after the Texans score their first touchdown or field goal of the game and instead come up with your own dream game scenario. Using your imagination can be fun.

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Whatever you do, don’t set your DVR and then open Chron.com. Some genius has decided to show updates of the score as a headline. Some of us have jobs that keep us away at game time. Why not update within the story instead of ruining it for those of us that use a DVR?

it is on the Westcoast 7:20 for them 9:20 for us……..If you are so special and want it started at 5:20 in San Diego to please you then you are a true elitist Texan FAN……if you don’t like it don’t watch!!!!!!easy peasy!!!!